Forensics, archeology, genealogy, and genetics are devoted to figuring out what really happened. In this hour, we hear surprising stories of playing detective, and find that what really happened in ...

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The Residence, The Wire, Dexter, True Detective, Mare of Easttown, and more make our list of detective shows that are perfect ...

This article contains discussions of sexual assault. True crime is bigger than ever these days, and even though there are definitely some ethical gray areas to deal with in this genre, there's no ...

There's one particular genre that produced several of the greatest literary classics of yesteryear (a classic here being defined as any book released before the 21st century), and that's the detective ...

NBC’s Dateline: Detective Story recounts the multi-decade-long investigation of the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. Initially, the murder was reported as a burglary gone wrong, but when the case was ...

Vanessa Braganza is a student at Columbia Law School and is the author of the forthcoming book “The Secret-Seekers: A Book Detective’s Quest to Decode the Renaissance.” Few genres are as universally ...

It’s hard to pin down the first detective story ever written, but whether you credit “The Three Apples” from “One Thousand and One Nights” or Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” one ...

Oni Press' Hobtown Mystery Stories series of graphic novels has developed a cult following in recent years, as these books essentially ask the question "What if Stranger Things were produced by A24?".

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. True Detective has been a bizarre adventure in ...